Postgame Tier #5: The Box Legendaries

Another day, another set of crummy legendaries to catch. This is normally where you would get your first box legends, but since you already have Miraidon/Koraidon it's a bit of a moot point.

Actually, the first Boss Rush challenge is now available. If you speak to the attendant to the other side of the MixnMatch area, as long as every gym leader is available you can start the Boss Rush. This should be very very easy.

Darkrai

Shaymin

The gate to this area can be found in Lower Peridot Ward, in the garden of the building at the far left. The real benefit to this area is that you can catch Spectrier and Calyrex here; you can buy the Reins of Unity at the top of the Obsidia Department Store and get Calyrex-Shadow, which is obviously just disgustingly busted. It's fair to say that Calyrex-Shadow is one of the strongest single Pokémon in the entire game on every single field barring the Holy Field, an honour only shared with Zacian, Mega Rayquaza, and Miraidon (on any field that lets it get Electric Terrain).

Make your way to the highest point at the centre of the map to find Eve and Lumi around a machine of questionable design. She'll ask if you trust her or not, and then a battle; you'll fight Lumi if you say you do, and Eve if you don't. You'll also lose a relationship point with whoever you fought, if that matters to you. I don't really know why you have to fight.

After ruining two more lives, you need to go and collect five Shaymin. You need to activate some bouncy grass to get to them; we'll do this clockwise.

1. There's a fairly easy jumping puzzle at the north-northeast of the map; you'll find a white orb that spawns some bouncy grass for you elsewhere on the map. Then, walk south to find some pre-existing bouncy grass; this sends you to an island with a grass bush (the Shaymin) on it. Return to the main area from the west side.
2. The southeast of the map has a maze. You can't quite solve it yet, so instead just make it to the white orb and activate it to spawn... a mushroom.
3. At the west of the map, you'll find a forest with some glowing mushrooms in it. The path here is linear; walk into the mushroom to teleport some stuff out of the way. Keep going until you reach the third Orb, then take the shortcut back through to activate the final mushroom which gives you access to the Shaymin.

4. At the north-west you find... a bouncy grass "maze". Can't say I'm a fan of this. The solution to this is trivial, you should be able to figure it out with no difficulty. In addition to getting the stray Shaymin, you want to get the orb which unblocks the regular maze.
5. Return to the regular maze and walk to the south-east of it to find the fourth shaymin.

Talk to Eve to progress; it'll be a double battle with you and her against the Shaymins.

After this, you need to go and collect five Gracidea flowers. They're all found in the previous areas, although there's a bit of spice added now—but nothing you shouldn't be able to handle. There are two dependencies, though:

1. You have to get the white orb at the north-east of the map to activate the western forest puzzle.
2. Once you've done the forest, you need to activate a red mushroom then leave for the bouncy grass puzzle at the north-west to work.

Once that's done, talk to Eve for a cutscene; Craudberry of all people shows up. The puzzle here is that you have to battle her and grow the flower field in-battle to maximum before killing her. I really like this as a puzzle, there's a few strategies you can try; here's some tips and ideas:

1. Synthetic Seed obviously grows the garden by one, but it stops you from switching out, so you have to sac it to get out (or use U-Turn).
2. Growth on a specially defensive user with Giga Drain and Leftovers can work, like Roselia.
3. I recommend leading with a Rain setter so that she can't erase the field with fire moves. Her Amoongus can still erase it with Z-Acid though.
4. Her Qwilfish can Taunt but it usually doesn't as the AI is stupid. You can set up with Growth in front of it, then sweep with Giga Drain.

After this, you'll get a heart-warming cutscene, and then you can talk to the Shaymin next to you to catch it.

Dialga & Palkia

Genesect

Marshadow

This is a fairly simple one. Once you get to Apophyll Academy, Victoria will start pointing out unfocused students; talk to them for small battles. You'll need to talk multiple times for it to work.

After that, you'll be roped into a battle with Umbral "Kiki".

Mew